A slope stabilization project on state Route 109 through Hoquiam in Grays Harbor County will close the road round the clock for three weeks beginning March 22, the state Department of Transportation … more

Twenty years ago on Thursday, March 16, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old Olympia woman who was a student at The Evergreen State College, was killed by an Israeli military-operated Caterpillar bulldozer … more

The body of an adult man was found in Watershed Park on Sunday, March 12, and the Olympia Police Department has opened an investigation into the cause of his death. Police Lt. Paul Lower said a … more

A 22-year-old man was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to running a red light while intoxicated, causing a Christmas Eve crash in 2021 that killed a pregnant woman. Sean … more

A man accused of driving a stolen vehicle, fleeing from a Lewis County Sheriff’s Office deputy on foot and then breaking into a residence in the Packwood area on Thursday is now facing multiple … more

I’m going to start this “turn off your phones” column with a call to first spend 80 minutes watching your screen. A movie called “Childhood 2.0,” which our friends at the Chehalis Parent-Teacher Organization showed last week to community members, is definitely worth your time. The whole film can be watched, free and without commercials, on YouTube at www.bit.ly/Childhood2point0. The movie, about changes to the carefree childhood days of yore, is sobering but ultimately enlightening and positive as it suggests ways to stay engaged in our children’s real and digital lives. more

In 1952, when Agnes Martinez was 12 years old, her teacher asked her class if anyone was interested in being a pen pal to another 12-year-old girl from the United States. The teacher picked Martinez … more

Kayla Weed, W.F. West High School’s first-ever female wrestler in 2014, was declared victor in a mixed martial arts (MMA) match against Rose Fujinaka Saturday night in front of a sold out crowd … more

• LAWRENCE WOODARD, 84, Centralia, died March 11 in Centralia. Arrangements are under the care of Newell-Hoerling’s Mortuary. more

In a statement released last Wednesday, state Senate Republican Leader John Braun, R-Centralia, on Senate Bill 5352, which amends a law passed in 2021 to grant law enforcement a greater ability to … more

The Southwest Washington Dance Center has partnered with the Centralia College Foundation to host “A Gala For The Arts,” a reception and performance at the Corbet Theatre on Saturday, … more

CHEHALIS POLICE DEPARTMENT   Arson   • A case of arson reported in the 200 block of Southwest First Street just before 8:30 a.m. on March 10 is under investigation.   … more

As a teenager, Ada van Esso survived two years in Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Nazi death camp in Poland, and weighed only 60 pounds when she left Ravensbrück concentration camp for Sweden. Hans van … more

“It’s much more agreeable to offend and later ask for forgiveness than to be offended and grant forgiveness,” Friedrich Nietzsche once said.   I would agree, … more

This is my response to the letter to the editor condemning Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez for voting for the IRS to hire 87,000 agents.   I applaud Marie because she read the facts … more

It’s odd many well educated people can’t grasp the voters of Lewis County are not as dumb as our politicians and educators think. The failures of the school levies are their fault. Many … more

A recent letter from Ray Anderson regarding the constitutionality of school prayer fails to ask or answer what is always the most important question: whose prayer will be said?   Am I to … more

I make note that your paper has removed the Dilbert comic and replaced it. I in no way agree with or condone the statements that were made by the creator of the Dilbert comic. It is your … more

Chad Taylor, the owner and publisher of The Chronicle, occasionally publishes a musings column in The Chronicle, the newspaper he bought. In a recent column about homelessness, Mr. Taylor mused … more